TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 51 



for exhibition as soon as wall space in the galleries of the Ad- 

 ministration Building is made available by the removal of the 

 Heads and Horns collection to the proposed new Museum. 



It is the purpose of your Committee to ultimately have a 

 complete Gallery of all the large North American animals in 

 their native surroundings. More than half of the species already 

 are represented by paintings. 



In the meantime the smaller mammals and birds will be 

 painted in the order of their increasing scarcity, and the animals 

 most threatened by extermination will receive immediate atten- 

 tion. In the case of the fur-bearing animals, this is a matter 

 of pressing importance. 



To complete the collection at least $10,000 will be needed, 

 and subscriptions for this purpose will be welcome. 



A collection of early American hunting prints, inclusive of 

 hunting and bird shooting, is being assembled by the Art Com- 

 mittee, and Dr. George Bird Grinnell of the Board of Managers 

 has succeeded in gathering many interesting early prints that 

 will be placed on exhibition as soon as space is available. 



During the year important moving photographic records of 

 animals at the Zoological Park have been made by Raymond L. 

 Ditmars, Curator of Reptiles. 



These pictures were shown to the Managers and members 

 at the various meetings of the Society. Through the use of some 

 of them in the theaters throughout the country the interest in 

 the Zoological Park has been greatly fostered. In this way we 

 have secured our only permanent records of certain rare animals, 

 which lived only a short time at the Park, such as the koala, an 

 extraordinary arboreal marsupial, which died a few days after 

 its arrival from Australia. 



The Executive Committee intend to encourage the develop- 

 ment of its photographic department as soon as funds are avail- 

 able for such purposes. 



TROPICAL RESEARCH STATION. 



The Tropical Research Station was reopened in April, 1920, 

 under the charge of its Director, Mr. William Beebe, The re- 

 ports received from time to time from Mr. Beebe indicate a very 



